Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 32: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

26 Roanoke of Roanoke Hall. that there had been a terrible battle at Sedge- moor, that many had been killed, the Duke of Monmouth had fled, and my father and many more taken prisoners.- Nor did I then comprehend at all what it meant to me, nor why my grandmother should hold me s0 tight to her heart, kissing me and calling me & poor, unhappy orphan child. comicbooks.com.